Laura Parks
Biographic Data
| ID | 133948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Parks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Parks |
| SIGNATURE | PARKS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3921-5397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The external dimensions of the European Green Deal
Exporting the just transition? The European Investment Bank, the European Green Deal and environmental and social rules for green projects outside the EU
The European Union’s European Green Deal (EGD) aims for a just transition to carbon neutrality both within and beyond its borders. This contribution to the special issue on the external dimensions of the EGD focuses on the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB). As a newly declared climate bank and a major funder of ‘green’ projects, the EIB’s role in this vein deserves attention. Do the environmental and social principles the EIB uses to jud…
How the climate movement shaped the EU: Protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal
The European Green Deal (EGD), a broad programme aiming at EU climate neutrality by 2050, includes attention to democratic participation. This article unpacks how social movement claims about participatory democracy are reflected in the EGD. It discusses the long-term impacts of social movements through the cumulative effects of protest cycles on complex political contexts and explains how movements’ claims about participatory democracy contribut…
Democracy and the European Green Deal
Positionality as a Data Point in Race Research
Increasingly, journal editors are requesting researchers to include positionality statements in submissions and publications of manuscripts. These statements are a step in the right direction to help consumers of research identify, make sense of, critique, and understand researchers' roles in race research. However, we stress the need to build positionality framing throughout qualitative research methods, processes, and dissemination. We argue a …
Convergence in action: Framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan
With the emergence of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, youth climate activism has attracted increasing attention. Climate strikes are part of a long trajectory of mobilizations for climate justice, rooted in global justice and environmental struggles. Although research on social movements has analyzed differences and continuities within these, there have been few systematic comparisons between youth climate strikes and ‘traditional’ c…
Social movements and Europeanisation: Framing ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in Times of Multiple Crises
Movements on the Right and Left have long contested EU politics and policy choices. By analysing public opinion data and the positions of right- and left-wing movements, the article highlights increasing criticism of European integration on the Right, and a persistent critical vision on the Left which challenges the content of EU policies rather than the existence of a European polity. Far-Right movements have moved from Euroscepticism to radical…
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach
Framing environmental issues
Framing approaches concern the creation and contestation of meaning. This chapter discusses how social movements work to frame environmental issues both to motivate their supporters and to address authorities, including international organizations. It begins with an overview of the approach and some key concepts before introducing findings from recent literature on contemporary protests, including those by Fridays for Future and Indigenous people…
The Relationships between Personal Values, Justifications, and Academic Cheating for Business vs. Non-Business Students
Indigenous peoples’ rights to natural resources in Argentina: The challenges of impact assessment, consent and fair and equitable benefit-sharing in cases of lithium mining
This article explores the role of ILO Convention 169 in two cases in the context of the development of lithium mining projects in Argentina. The cases serve to illustrate the implementation challenges arising from the Convention obligations on environmental impact assessment, free prior informed consent and benefit-sharing for the protection of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights over natural resources pertaining to their lands. The cases also …
Research Note: Reflections on Methods from an Interdisciplinary Research Project in Global Environmental Law
This research note reflects on the methods (as distinct from methodology) used in a five-year interdisciplinary and multi-site research project in global environmental law, and their links to questions of research ethics. We highlight the iterative processes that proved necessary to compare five case studies on local communities engaged in varied discussions on fair and equitable benefit sharing in different regions of the world and their implica…
Selection for Fit
We review person-organization fit theory and research on selection and recruitment, and also highlight practical recommendations. The article is framed around explaining how and why people who are well matched to their organization experience optimal psychological reactions and performance. We address five key challenges to person-organization fit research and provide a brief overview of the critical distinction between “fitting in” decisions lin…
Spaces for local voices? A discourse analysis of the decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
This article discusses the existence and shape of a discursive space for local and indigenous voices in the arena of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Critical literature on global environmental governance argues that dominant or hegemonic discourses shape international-level decision making on environmental protection, and delimit the boundaries of possible policy choices. These discourses are identified by such scholarship as reflec…
The connection between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition in the EU. From Acta to the financial crisis
With no formal division between majority and opposition in the parliamentary arena, the European Union (EU) calls for an approach to political opposition which considers the role of civil society. This article explores the case of opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) within and without the European Parliament (EP) through a political opportunity approach, using the case to reflect on conditions for effective opposition in …
Challenging power from the bottom up? Community protocols, benefit-sharing, and the challenge of dominant discourses
Social movements, the European crisis, and EU political opportunities
Contention in the age of austerity in Europe: The emergence of new alternatives
Beyond Time and Place: Discourse, Power and the National/Transnational Debate
The three edited volumes that form the focus of this short essay are diverse in their structures, focuses and aims. Nevertheless, three themes of particular import to the discipline come to the fore. In the following, I shall discuss the contributions of the volumes in three areas – frames, discourse and diffusion; the debate on the national vs. the transnational; and finally the issue of power and how it is exercised by and upon social movements…
When trade unions succeed: Cases of blocked liberalisation in the common market
Despite the generally accepted weakness of trade unions at the European Union level, an analysis of two high profile cases – the Services Directive and the Port Directive – shows that trade unions are able to mobilise effectively at the European level and, within constellations of actors, crucially impact EU decision making. In contrast to common claims that a lack of access to EU institutions makes such groups powerless, it is argued here that t…
Exploring pre-service teachers’ literacy practices with children from diverse backgrounds: Implications for teacher educators
Social movements, the European crisis, and EU political opportunities
Indigenous peoples’ rights to natural resources in Argentina: The challenges of impact assessment, consent and fair and equitable benefit-sharing in cases of lithium mining
This article explores the role of ILO Convention 169 in two cases in the context of the development of lithium mining projects in Argentina. The cases serve to illustrate the implementation challenges arising from the Convention obligations on environmental impact assessment, free prior informed consent and benefit-sharing for the protection of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights over natural resources pertaining to their lands. The cases also …
When trade unions succeed: Cases of blocked liberalisation in the common market
Despite the generally accepted weakness of trade unions at the European Union level, an analysis of two high profile cases – the Services Directive and the Port Directive – shows that trade unions are able to mobilise effectively at the European level and, within constellations of actors, crucially impact EU decision making. In contrast to common claims that a lack of access to EU institutions makes such groups powerless, it is argued here that t…
Democracy and the European Green Deal
Positionality as a Data Point in Race Research
Increasingly, journal editors are requesting researchers to include positionality statements in submissions and publications of manuscripts. These statements are a step in the right direction to help consumers of research identify, make sense of, critique, and understand researchers' roles in race research. However, we stress the need to build positionality framing throughout qualitative research methods, processes, and dissemination. We argue a …
Challenging power from the bottom up? Community protocols, benefit-sharing, and the challenge of dominant discourses
The connection between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition in the EU. From Acta to the financial crisis
With no formal division between majority and opposition in the parliamentary arena, the European Union (EU) calls for an approach to political opposition which considers the role of civil society. This article explores the case of opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) within and without the European Parliament (EP) through a political opportunity approach, using the case to reflect on conditions for effective opposition in …
Exploring pre-service teachers’ literacy practices with children from diverse backgrounds: Implications for teacher educators
How the climate movement shaped the EU: Protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal
The European Green Deal (EGD), a broad programme aiming at EU climate neutrality by 2050, includes attention to democratic participation. This article unpacks how social movement claims about participatory democracy are reflected in the EGD. It discusses the long-term impacts of social movements through the cumulative effects of protest cycles on complex political contexts and explains how movements’ claims about participatory democracy contribut…
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach
Convergence in action: Framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan
With the emergence of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, youth climate activism has attracted increasing attention. Climate strikes are part of a long trajectory of mobilizations for climate justice, rooted in global justice and environmental struggles. Although research on social movements has analyzed differences and continuities within these, there have been few systematic comparisons between youth climate strikes and ‘traditional’ c…
Social movements and Europeanisation: Framing ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in Times of Multiple Crises
Movements on the Right and Left have long contested EU politics and policy choices. By analysing public opinion data and the positions of right- and left-wing movements, the article highlights increasing criticism of European integration on the Right, and a persistent critical vision on the Left which challenges the content of EU policies rather than the existence of a European polity. Far-Right movements have moved from Euroscepticism to radical…
The Relationships between Personal Values, Justifications, and Academic Cheating for Business vs. Non-Business Students
Spaces for local voices? A discourse analysis of the decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
This article discusses the existence and shape of a discursive space for local and indigenous voices in the arena of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Critical literature on global environmental governance argues that dominant or hegemonic discourses shape international-level decision making on environmental protection, and delimit the boundaries of possible policy choices. These discourses are identified by such scholarship as reflec…
Exporting the just transition? The European Investment Bank, the European Green Deal and environmental and social rules for green projects outside the EU
The European Union’s European Green Deal (EGD) aims for a just transition to carbon neutrality both within and beyond its borders. This contribution to the special issue on the external dimensions of the EGD focuses on the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB). As a newly declared climate bank and a major funder of ‘green’ projects, the EIB’s role in this vein deserves attention. Do the environmental and social principles the EIB uses to jud…
Research Note: Reflections on Methods from an Interdisciplinary Research Project in Global Environmental Law
This research note reflects on the methods (as distinct from methodology) used in a five-year interdisciplinary and multi-site research project in global environmental law, and their links to questions of research ethics. We highlight the iterative processes that proved necessary to compare five case studies on local communities engaged in varied discussions on fair and equitable benefit sharing in different regions of the world and their implica…
Exploring pre-service teachers’ literacy practices with children from diverse backgrounds: Implications for teacher educators
When trade unions succeed: Cases of blocked liberalisation in the common market
Despite the generally accepted weakness of trade unions at the European Union level, an analysis of two high profile cases – the Services Directive and the Port Directive – shows that trade unions are able to mobilise effectively at the European level and, within constellations of actors, crucially impact EU decision making. In contrast to common claims that a lack of access to EU institutions makes such groups powerless, it is argued here that t…
Beyond Time and Place: Discourse, Power and the National/Transnational Debate
The three edited volumes that form the focus of this short essay are diverse in their structures, focuses and aims. Nevertheless, three themes of particular import to the discipline come to the fore. In the following, I shall discuss the contributions of the volumes in three areas – frames, discourse and diffusion; the debate on the national vs. the transnational; and finally the issue of power and how it is exercised by and upon social movements…
Social movements, the European crisis, and EU political opportunities
Contention in the age of austerity in Europe: The emergence of new alternatives
The connection between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition in the EU. From Acta to the financial crisis
With no formal division between majority and opposition in the parliamentary arena, the European Union (EU) calls for an approach to political opposition which considers the role of civil society. This article explores the case of opposition to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) within and without the European Parliament (EP) through a political opportunity approach, using the case to reflect on conditions for effective opposition in …
Challenging power from the bottom up? Community protocols, benefit-sharing, and the challenge of dominant discourses
Selection for Fit
We review person-organization fit theory and research on selection and recruitment, and also highlight practical recommendations. The article is framed around explaining how and why people who are well matched to their organization experience optimal psychological reactions and performance. We address five key challenges to person-organization fit research and provide a brief overview of the critical distinction between “fitting in” decisions lin…
Spaces for local voices? A discourse analysis of the decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
This article discusses the existence and shape of a discursive space for local and indigenous voices in the arena of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Critical literature on global environmental governance argues that dominant or hegemonic discourses shape international-level decision making on environmental protection, and delimit the boundaries of possible policy choices. These discourses are identified by such scholarship as reflec…
Indigenous peoples’ rights to natural resources in Argentina: The challenges of impact assessment, consent and fair and equitable benefit-sharing in cases of lithium mining
This article explores the role of ILO Convention 169 in two cases in the context of the development of lithium mining projects in Argentina. The cases serve to illustrate the implementation challenges arising from the Convention obligations on environmental impact assessment, free prior informed consent and benefit-sharing for the protection of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights over natural resources pertaining to their lands. The cases also …
Research Note: Reflections on Methods from an Interdisciplinary Research Project in Global Environmental Law
This research note reflects on the methods (as distinct from methodology) used in a five-year interdisciplinary and multi-site research project in global environmental law, and their links to questions of research ethics. We highlight the iterative processes that proved necessary to compare five case studies on local communities engaged in varied discussions on fair and equitable benefit sharing in different regions of the world and their implica…
Framing environmental issues
Framing approaches concern the creation and contestation of meaning. This chapter discusses how social movements work to frame environmental issues both to motivate their supporters and to address authorities, including international organizations. It begins with an overview of the approach and some key concepts before introducing findings from recent literature on contemporary protests, including those by Fridays for Future and Indigenous people…
The Relationships between Personal Values, Justifications, and Academic Cheating for Business vs. Non-Business Students
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach
Convergence in action: Framing the climate crisis at the 2021 Pre-COP counter-summit in Milan
With the emergence of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, youth climate activism has attracted increasing attention. Climate strikes are part of a long trajectory of mobilizations for climate justice, rooted in global justice and environmental struggles. Although research on social movements has analyzed differences and continuities within these, there have been few systematic comparisons between youth climate strikes and ‘traditional’ c…
Social movements and Europeanisation: Framing ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in Times of Multiple Crises
Movements on the Right and Left have long contested EU politics and policy choices. By analysing public opinion data and the positions of right- and left-wing movements, the article highlights increasing criticism of European integration on the Right, and a persistent critical vision on the Left which challenges the content of EU policies rather than the existence of a European polity. Far-Right movements have moved from Euroscepticism to radical…
The external dimensions of the European Green Deal
Exporting the just transition? The European Investment Bank, the European Green Deal and environmental and social rules for green projects outside the EU
The European Union’s European Green Deal (EGD) aims for a just transition to carbon neutrality both within and beyond its borders. This contribution to the special issue on the external dimensions of the EGD focuses on the role of the European Investment Bank (EIB). As a newly declared climate bank and a major funder of ‘green’ projects, the EIB’s role in this vein deserves attention. Do the environmental and social principles the EIB uses to jud…
How the climate movement shaped the EU: Protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal
The European Green Deal (EGD), a broad programme aiming at EU climate neutrality by 2050, includes attention to democratic participation. This article unpacks how social movement claims about participatory democracy are reflected in the EGD. It discusses the long-term impacts of social movements through the cumulative effects of protest cycles on complex political contexts and explains how movements’ claims about participatory democracy contribut…
Democracy and the European Green Deal
Positionality as a Data Point in Race Research
Increasingly, journal editors are requesting researchers to include positionality statements in submissions and publications of manuscripts. These statements are a step in the right direction to help consumers of research identify, make sense of, critique, and understand researchers' roles in race research. However, we stress the need to build positionality framing throughout qualitative research methods, processes, and dissemination. We argue a …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works)